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A tenter is a frame on which cloth is stretched during manufacture, so that it may dry evenly. The frame is outfitted with sharp hooks or bent nails that hold the cloth stretched. These hooks, you will not be surprised to learn, are called tenterhooks. Cloth-stretching being outside of most people's range of experience these days, tenterhook is rarely found except in the figurative expression on tenterhooks, meaning 'in a state of uneasy suspense or painful anxiety'.
It's an old term from the trade-guild era. When you got dismissed, you put your tools in a sack and left.
The word "obscured" is a verb meaning keep from being seen or to conceal. Another meaning is to make unclear and difficult to understand. It is the past tense form of the word obscure.
Neese is Celtic in origin being the Celtic word for choice or chosen. It was mostly used in the Scottish areas as a word and later as a name for a sub-clan of the MacGregors.
Deangelo (D'Angelo) may be Italian in origin meaning "from Angelo", Angelo being a male given name meaning "angel".
A tenter is a frame on which cloth is stretched during manufacture, so that it may dry evenly. The frame is outfitted with sharp hooks or bent nails that hold the cloth stretched. These hooks, you will not be surprised to learn, are called tenterhooks. Cloth-stretching being outside of most people's range of experience these days, tenterhook is rarely found except in the figurative expression on tenterhooks, meaning 'in a state of uneasy suspense or painful anxiety'.
Tenterhooks are hooks in a device called a tenter, used in the process of making woollen cloth. Being "on tenterhooks" means being in a state of tension, uneasiness, anxiety, i.e. feeling stretched like the cloth on the tenter.
Tenterhooks are vicious s-shaped hooks, used to stretch linen in the fields, one end snagged through the cloth and the other end looped over a wooden frame. Being on tenterhooks would involve having one snagged through each hand/foot, then pulled out tight - so not particularly comfortable.
In latin, ad hoc means 'to this'. Ad hoc, meaning impromptu or unplanned, refers to things that are being executed at the time of saying and often have an improvised character.
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There is a phrase that is used such as BEING DONE instead of TO BE DONE. These two words are having save meaning or what?
It means he is being unkind to his family.
"Time being" in Malayalam can be translated to "ഇപ്പോൾ നിലവിലെ സമയം" (ippol nilavilae samayam).
According to Wiktionary, one of the possible origins of this phrase dates back to the legend of Medusa, who was the mythological being who could turn any creature or being into stone by just looking them in the eye.
the sanskrit word avatara meaning the descent or reincarnation of a divine being in Hindu
I believe it originated with the drawing of a female sheep (ewe), with the phrase, "Ewe's not fat, ewe's fluffy", with the message being 'You aren't fat, you're just fluffy'.
The phrase you are looking for is "raison d'etre," French for "reason for being."